Virginia Woolf: Frases en inglés

Virginia Woolf era escritora inglesa. Frases en inglés.
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“The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you've struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.”

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“What is this terror? what is this ecstasy? he thought to himself. What is it that fills me with this extraordinary excitement?
It is Clarissa, he said.
For there she was.”

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Virginia Woolf libro La señora Dalloway

Fuente: Mrs. Dalloway

“By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.”

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Virginia Woolf libro Orlando

Fuente: Orlando

“Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.”

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Virginia Woolf libro La señora Dalloway

Mrs Dalloway (1925)
Fuente: Mrs. Dalloway

“I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.”

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Virginia Woolf libro El cuarto de Jacob

Fuente: Jacob's Room

“Never pretend that the things you haven't got are not worth having.”

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Fuente: The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Two: 1920-1924

“Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?”

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Virginia Woolf libro Una habitación propia

Fuente: A Room of One's Own

“He called her a melon, a pineapple, an olive tree, an emerald, and a fox in the snow all in the space of three seconds; he did not know whether he had heard her, tasted her, seen her, or all three together.”

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“Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.”

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Virginia Woolf libro La señora Dalloway

Fuente: Mrs. Dalloway

“All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.”

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Virginia Woolf libro Al faro

Fuente: To the Lighthouse

“Fear no more, says the heart, committing its burden to some sea, which sighs collectively for all sorrows, and renews, begins, collects, lets fall”

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Virginia Woolf libro La señora Dalloway

Fuente: Mrs. Dalloway

“To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality.”

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Virginia Woolf libro Orlando

Fuente: Orlando

“Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit.”

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Virginia Woolf libro La señora Dalloway

Fuente: Mrs. Dalloway

“But when we sit together, close,’ said Bernard, ‘we melt into each other with phrases. We are edged with mist. We make an unsubstantial territory.”

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Virginia Woolf libro Las olas

Fuente: The Waves

“Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.”

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Virginia Woolf libro Una habitación propia

Fuente: A Room of One's Own

“I prefer men to cauliflowers”

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Virginia Woolf libro La señora Dalloway

Fuente: Mrs. Dalloway

“For masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.”

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Virginia Woolf libro Una habitación propia

Fuente: A Room of One's Own

“Fear no more, says the heart…”

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Virginia Woolf libro La señora Dalloway

Fuente: Mrs. Dalloway

“Yes, she thought, laying down her brush in extreme fatigues, I have had my vision.”

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Virginia Woolf libro Al faro

Fuente: To the Lighthouse